skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's necessarily true. For example, if, as self-confessed pirates have frequently argued on sites like Slashdot, the advertising side-effect of sharing works freely ultimately generates more revenue for the creator than copyright-controlled distribution, then the logical move even with copyright is to put those works into the public domain and invite donations to support the creator. However, that risks the alternative possibility that the "advertising benefit" agument really is just another pyramid scheme, and without enough law-abiding (with copyright)/donation-giving (without copyright) people at the end of it to support everyone else, it's just rationalising freeloading.

Indeed, and plenty of artists nowadays (both big and small) have experimented to a certain degree with this model. It has its benefits and downsides but largely your argument is not particularly relevant to the topic of the article: the question is not 'Would content creators be better off without copyright?', it is 'Would society be better off without copyright?' The economic optimum is for creators to make the fixed costs of producing the work and nothing else; there is little incentive for them to support changing the current system which gives them an essentially unlimited monopoly on their work. The article is merely meant to outline some ways in which creators could get their fixed costs covered without copyright.

There are definitely valid arguments against copyright based on greater use of derivative works. The problem is that it is also possible that derivative works would become dominant if it were easy to make them and much harder to create something original, with little incentive to do the latter.

Why is this a problem? Modern popular culture demonstrates pretty conclusively that most people have no problem with works that are essentially derivative..
If you were designing something that needed a stable oscillator you couldn't use a 555 because the oscillating frequency would vary tremendously with temperature. Same with the length of the pulse if you used it as a one-shot.

Those are all properties of the capacitors used, primarily, followed by Vcc stability. The 555 itself is a very long way down the list of Things That Make Oscillators Drift. Did you try polystyrene or polypropylene capacitors, or NPO ceramics? Supply pushing was also improved with the 7555 CMOS part, as I recall.

At the company I worked in the late '80s the frustrated management banned its use altogether after a series of failures in the field were traced to designs that relied on the 555 to be more stable than it really was.

Sounds enlightened.
That would be a specious and incredibly naive argument

The invention is before the patent. You're missing that. It is important.

> Invention | patent
My new app - what do you think?
I doubt they're worried about spying on Americans. Spying on the (our) government (and stealing trade secrets) is another matter. And that's what's it's all about. Right or wrong.
Says Wikipedia, and my recollection, the first two flights of Falcon 1 were purchased by the DoD, i.e. the US government, so that's not correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1#Private_funding
> They write that they find support for the "socialization hypothesis", presumably meaning that players pick up norms from the violent games.

Yes, they say that, but the study offers no evidentiary support for that opinion. Scientific papers are not supposed to be soapboxes for the opinions of the researchers, only the careful reporting of scientific results. And the result of this study is that there is a correlation between aggressive behavior and video game play. Correlation is not causation. Aggressive behavior might lead to a preference of video games, or the reverse. This study cannot sort it out. And a study that did sort it out would do it by forcing people to play, or not play, video games, for an extended period. That's unethical and will never happen.
Luxottica is an insane monopoly. They even own the #1 vision care provider in the US, EyeMed Vision Care, who has no problem prescribing expensive eyeglass they make and sell themselves! How have they been able to escape antitrust laws?
Hacker group faces up to 24 years in prison for ‘terrorist crimes’
Basic MySQL Tutorial
In essence, you can:

- create/organize your data in hierarchically (lists of lists)

- publish content at any point in the hierarchy

- share data with specific people at any point in the hierarchy

- generate QR codes for any point in the hierarchy for mobile/remote access.

It's an idea I have been playing with for years, but finally got around to turning it into something usable.

It's actually pretty good and I think the concept is unique.
Is this true? Not even the Thunderbolt Display is 128+
If the Chinese government wanted, couldn't they bug iPhones just as easily? They're manufactured in China, after all...
That's what so scary to me. There's all that productive discussion that is only a step over some noteworthiness threshold away from being completely ruined. I wouldn't think of blaming HN or even reddit submitters for that, though.
This seems actually a nice idea. Thanks for sharing.
John Gurdon pioneer of biological cloning awarded Nobel Prize in medicine
Who are these laymen, and why are they reviewing papers?
I hate it when github projects have no information of what the project does in readme.md.

In this case I know what JSMin is but have no idea what sourcemaps - the project doesn't give me enough information to understand whats different than the normal JSMin.
Not exactly what you were asking, but you can check your software/webpage/publications with a tool like Color Oracle. It simulates different types of color blindness on your computer screen.

http://colororacle.org/
My first account was hellbanned after my first comment (I was stupid enough to make a joke). I had no idea for weeks, and hellbanning also makes the site incredibly slow.

I only realised after I logged out and the site was fast. It's absolutely absurd to hellban someone after 1 comment (and it wasn't racist, aggressive, etc). What's wrong with warnings, or at least telling me I was banned?
Interestingly, you seem to imply that increase of aggression level is bad (conclusion of this study is that aggression is higher in teens that play violent games), while high level of aggression is most likely bad, it may very well to turn out that on average relative increase of aggression level in individual may have positive effects for said individual.
Correlation is not causation

You speak from experience? There is strong orthogonal logic that supports the hypothesis that simulated violence is effective in generating, inducing, and manipulating aggression in human subjects.

viz> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4625843
Wonder when we'll see a protest against _NSAKEY...
apart from that flash of color, I am really enjoying it also.
It is almost calming, and allows me to focus on content much more easily - very similarly to the way readability or instapaper do without the need to switch contexts.
By the way, this isn't about pseudoscience like homeopathy, but the "soft sciences" (is that the term?), that don't (can't?) experiment effectively.
Of course I wasn't talking about banks and space shuttles, that would be inane. Some places can't accept outages and failure, and naturally "move fast and break things" is an unacceptable mantra for those places.

However, few companies are rated on the quality of their code. Rather, most companies are rated on how well they serve their customers needs, including the vast majority of companies discussed on Hacker News.

The way to delight your customers is to iterate quickly. The way to achieve great software is also to iterate quickly. That is not a coincidence. Willingness to withstand a little bit of breakage allows companies to move fast. This contributes to an overall _higher_ level of quality, leading not to frequent outages (Facebook does not have frequent outages and failure), but to more robust product.

I am aware of how people build software in more traditional fields (my background is in compilers and static analysis). I am also aware that traditional software development techniques are being eclipsed by those who are willing to throw off the shackles of the past. The "hackday coding methodology" may not be useful to make the code for your car, but the techniques used to build your car are not useful for building a successful SaaS product.
http://www.badprogramming.com/
Tool sniffs vulnerable sites flagged by McAfee, Trust Guard
they are not reviewing papers, nor are they the fund contributors. They are the general population, whose sentiments affect the way society sees things overall. For example, a lot of people are now rightfully scared of nuclear tech (due to recent disasters). And yet, most people dont understand that neclear energy is quite safe (compared to coal, say). If a political leader decides to invest in nuclear energy, they instantly become unpopular, and thus lies the problem of funding via such channels.
A couple of interesting quotes:

" “When I get an application, I basically have two days to research and write a 10- to 20-page term paper on why I think it should be approved or rejected,” said Robert Budens, a 22-year patent examiner and president of the examiners’ labor union. “I’m not going to pretend like we get it right every time.” "

"... In an interview, Mr. Kappos said the lengthy back-and-forth between examiners and Apple was evidence that the system worked. ... “It’s called the patent office,” he said, noting that issuing patents is the agency’s job. In a statement, the agency said it had spent the last three years strengthening policies to improve patent quality. Besides, Mr. Kappos said, “we realize that only a handful of these patents will be really important.” "
Good Collection of Emerging Tech Feeds
Good thing I have aquired "some sort of hyper-zen keyboard/human symbiosis". Working with a tiling wm (wmii in my case) and some sort of web-browser with keyboard shortcuts - Pentadactyl, UZBL, vimperator or vimium - works fine enough. Better than a mouse with extra buttons for sure.
Who needs plugins.

MacOS X > System Preferences > Universal Access

- Seeing -

Display: [x] Use grayscale
I was loking for something like this for quite a while. I'm installing it right now.
My definition is different from yours. Science is anything that searches for the truth in some matter. For example, math isn't a science, because it isn't searching for any truths. It's building tools by following sets of rules.

Psychology can be about discovering the truth about people's minds on a high level, so it can be a science. It probably hasn't been going about it the right way so far, though. I think most of the field is sitting around theorizing (like the Greek philosophers) rather than come up with testable claims.
Is it still suitable to code loosely when people use your trivial SaaS as if it were a vital component of their life? And if you encourage people to do so, isn't it irresponsible to keep applying such a methodology?
Adding to the list of suggestions by other commenters, Sim Daltonism:
http://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/

I remember using it for a university project in 2007, in which we had to build a movie lookup website from scratch. I used Sim Daltonism to design 3 alternative CSS that would cater to the needs of people with different types of colorblindness (there's not just one type, although deuteranomaly (red/green colorblindness) is the most widespread).

The teacher thought it was superfluous and took points off. sigh :)
It's a joke on the reddit post with the highest score:

test post please ignore

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please...
You can avoid the flash by adding this into the Custom.css:

html {
-webkit-filter: grayscale(100%);
}

On Mac it's in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/User StyleSheets/Custom.css.
A case for FirefoxOS
Sure, but they aren't the ones deciding what gets published or not. The study that tried to replicate another study but failed has already been done, and it's not up to the laymen to decide whether or not to publish the results. Nor can we predict which studies will fail to duplicate results and not fund them, otherwise we wouldn't have to make them.

Results of failure are still results, and they represent valuable knowledge. Too bad the people who got them consider them a failure.
It doesn't appear that you've ever read anything about the history of science. When some physics experiment comes out, "every living physicist" doesn't immediately know "exactly what that result meant." It not nearly as rational and positivist as you would think. Science is a human activity. Read some Thomas Kuhn or Leviathan and the Air-Pump for starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_and_the_Air-Pump

And you should read a basic primer in psychology. You claim there have never been "central, unifying, falsifiable" theories that are "amenable to practical test" that have the potential to fail. I guess you've never heard of behaviorism or cognitive psychology. Evolutionary theory and computational models are also important components of psychological research.
Contact Lenses That Reshape The Eye to Stop Nearsightedness
A friend working with polymers told me recently that their patents tend to be vague as well, in order to block as many variations and modifications to given formula as possible, while not revealing the exact chemical process used to obtain the polymer (e.g. saying that the temperature used is between XX and YY, instead of providing the exact value).
Gratis y Legal: Alternativa a Spotify en Linux. Nuvola Player
Runaround
The 555 Timer was one of the fundamental IC's of my deeply rooted electronic fundamentals even though I am a modern day computer scientist. I remember using the 555 as a flip flop, a Schmitt trigger and to demonstrate a Monostable circuit.

RIP Hans - you touched my life!
Modern JavaScript runtimes are not interpreters, V8 for instance is just a JS to native ahead-of-time compiler. Also, for the general case, garbage collection has been outperforming manual management for over a decade now.
A great addon but I don't like the flicker from color to BW on page load.
Build blazing fast RESTful API clients with Node.js
L0pht Hackers Testifying at the United States Senate [May 19, 1998]
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcf...

Google's official high contrast accessibility plugin has a greyscale option, and no flicker on page load.
heh. i tend to lump font geeks in with grammar nazis as people who get worked up over the littlest things. while i never understood the reasons why people seem to go to war over fonts - witness the wrath against comic sans - i do appreciate a pretty font and the links in this discussion.

serifs unite!
This isn't a big surprise. Who wants their browsing experience fragmented across a mish-mash of apps each with their own interface?

One thing I would like to see is more sites supporting Google currents. Currents gives you offline caching, etc. and pretty much everything the best website apps out there do, but it does it in a slick consistent interface. Supporting Currents evidently does take some effort because some news sites screw it up so badly (Forbes, I'm looking at you.). Broken links, truncated stories, missing pictures, etc.. I like Currents so much I'm actually finding that my reading time is starting to skew towards sites with good support for it.
Someone "launched" Kamuze recently on HN. No idea how good it is, I tried commenting on his post but he/she never came back. You question made me remember it so maybe it would suit you? And as I said in my comment on this post, if you read/speak french senscritique.com would do this also.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597796
This really needs screenshots. 95% of my initial judgement of whether I want to investigate an app further is based on screenshots.
I had to go look at http://www.colourlovers.com/ ...
Yeah, but honestly that's FreeBSD's fault for installing system-managed software in a poor location for such.

(speaking as a FreeBSD user myself)
Welcome to 1988?
You shouldn't have destroyed the tool, you should have just prevented it working so easily, else someone else could build a tool.
My setup is pretty simple and could recover from this with few problems: I use ZFS and have zfSnap configured to take a snapshot every hour, saved for five days. So I'd lose potentially the last hour's worth of changes to /usr/local, but that's unlikely to be big.
It is not clear to me what I would use it for. emphasize the use it for.

"create/organize your data in hierarchically" is well and good, but doesn't make sense to a user. Also suggest lessening the content, just put 3-4 examples max. and put the examples front & center.
Allow me to suggest an alternative explanation: aggressive kids tend to like violent games.
On a server or an environment where you don't trust your users, absolutely. On your own private dev machine that's only used by you, doing things the 'wrong' way is often perfectly acceptable and makes life easier.
"Without any noise (or some sort of transient disturbance) no circuit would oscillate; it would just sit there, precariously balanced."

Did not know. Learn something interesting on HN everyday ... /:
Ask HN: Are there any good forum engine in Node.js
I'm not as familiar with polymer chemistry but I worked as a lab chemist in medicinal research and there there's really not much room for vagueness.
Well, true! Someone posted on a video on sound generation using IC 555 [0]. Sweet to the ears!

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzaS1nuL8ck
YMMV? Mine has been used and abused every day for over 2 years :S
Thus, by implication, if your career prospects rely partly on how others perceive you, instead of pure talent, they are pretty relevant.
Thanks -
this strangely makes using the computer a more soothing experience. Tried it for a few minutes, when I turned the color back on, it seemed suddenly very loud.
Chibi is about the same size, and unlike TinyScheme is a real Scheme with hygienic macros and a fast VM (TinyScheme is hopelessly slow). It also has features like Huffman compressed immediate symbols to further reduce runtime heap usage - the raw image size isn't the whole story.
Not sure I see anything wrong about this...
Very true. I am one of those people who checked Trends for Websites once or twice every week. It used to give a nice overview of traffic of various websites. I am amazed there is not a lot of outrage over this.
Wow, that's a great catch - I did notice the turbulence from the explosion in the webcast and thought "whoah, that didn't look like it was planned", but everything went so smoothly afterwards that I just wrote it off as the supersonic shockwave or something like that.
I can corroborate the (gp?) note above regarding numbers of PhD students dropping out because foundational research results that do not appear to be correct in molecular biology. It's just anecdata, but biology and chemistry, especially the expensive and difficult kinds (>1-2 years to attempt to repeat) is probably not reproduced as often as you'd like, and as far as I am aware, it's hard to get a PhD if you have identified serious shortcomings in important, but foundational, research. We may be wasting a lot of talent this way.
Words UI – User Interface Kit
Words UI is a large user interface pack for web designers and developers. Here, you will find all necessary elements for your project and site.
It would be cool if the developers of iOS and android did a better job at integrating the web onto their devices instead of trying to convince us for the opposite (Oddly, iOS has a better overall browsing experience over google's android)
Read the thread again.

> For example my employer's mail server--which has been sending legitimate person-to-person emails for years (no bulk)--has ended up on blacklists several times because some blacklist operator decided to black-hole an entire netblock at our ISP.

You replied:

> If your emplyer knows its recipients (e.g. business partners) and can coordinate with them to run an SMTP service for recieving and sending messages on a different port, would that solve the problem?

That solution introduces a bunch of problems: you're running more software that's open to the Internet and thus introducing insecurity; you're asking people (who might not be technical) to install and run software and use a different mechanism when they want to communicate with a subset of users.

The other solution is to just ask the people that you're sending email to, but who are using a whitelist / block list to add you to the white list or exclude you from the block list.
Hell yes. Cases in point:

- Accidentally opening all profiles up, causing users to have to reset them.

- Accidentally setting all photos to public, causing users to have to reset them.

- Syncing many peoples contacts to @facebook email addresses, in many cases deleting the users original contact lists

- (the last straw) - letting private messages go onto the public wall. Facebook deny's this happened, but I personally know two people (no friend of a friend business) who this has happened to. In both cases there were very private messages from their ex-partners, the kind of thing they'd take extreme alarm to if they were on their wall. Both quickly deleted all messages when it happened, rather than saving the evidence.

Move fast and break things when there's private info at stake, is not the correct way to do things. I stopped posting to facebook and am going to close my account (and move to G+, who have better quality controls), and have non-tech friends who have decided that's the way to go after the private messages thing.
I wrote a full VT/ANSI BBS client for the C64 using 6502 assembler and it was one of the fastest around. I never commercialised it, but it became something of an underground hit in the UK at the time.

The software was noteworthy because it ran in graphics mode with its own set of fonts and also (just about) managed to juggle printing AND still handling the serial comms, which was made super-difficult by the way port interrupts and I/O were handled on the C64.
Yet most news-sites apps are free. I suspect it's just because nobody has done a comprehensive study of their (non-)effectiveness.
If it was a simple form that sent an email you'd probably get 100x more results. People are lazy.
Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers do differently?
This is a follow-up to the lengthy "Do you want to be doing this at 50" discussion that we've been having here on HN for the past week. For those of you who might have missed it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611337
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620276
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616635

As someone who is definitely on the path to be developing software for the rest of his life, I'm somewhat concerned. There are many anecdotes of programmers in their 50s having a pretty bad time, and yet there are real examples out there of programmers who have done phenomenally well: they've made a difference, they're well known and respected AND they've been financially successful as well.

I'm thinking of (contemporary) programmers of the caliber of John Carmack, Rich Hickey, Peter Norvig, Jeff Dean.. I'm trying to understand what it is that they did differently from everybody else that set them apart. I understand that many have been successful through their ventures (see Bill Joy or Eric Schmidt), is that perhaps the only route?

I think this is an interesting and valuable discussion for every developer out there.
Nobel Prize Winners Announced